Restaurant
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 23:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 4 · shots 94–94. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark suit, tie, and white shirt, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
- woman in striped coat and hat, mid-adult, slender build visible, audible
- man in light suit, mid-adult, medium build, holding a glass visible
- Seen happening
- Three people stand near a table with glasses and bottles; one man gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “For the waiter.” 23:56 · “Wilcox, 3-400. Come in.” 24:08
- Seen
- glasses and bottles on table [frame:1], striped coat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], light suit [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and decisive; themes: negotiation, commitment, urban nightlife; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, crowded composition, period costume
A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a striped coat in a crowded room with tables and glasses; another man in a suit stands nearby. The transcript includes dialogue about signing something and calling Wilcox.
“I just gave everything I had to Hildy. All I've got left is... Not me. Sign it.” 23:48 · “Oh, all right.” 23:53 automatic transcript, may be wrong
The record
No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.
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